Jim West On Chess: Marshall March FIDE Weekend 3/6/2016

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Marshall March FIDE Weekend 3/6/2016

On Sunday, I drew this game in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (FIDE 2078) - Davis Zong (FIDE 1555), Marshall Chess Club 3/6/2016

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.O-O d6 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 Be6 8.Nbd2 Nf6 9.Re1 Be7 10.Ng5 O-O

11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.e5 Nd7 13.exd6 Bxd6 14.Ne4 Qh4 15.g3 Qe7, draw.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov